Moral giant, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the churchman’s death marked “another
chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of
outstanding South Africans”.
A contemporary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, he was one of
the driving forces behind the movement to end the policy of racial
segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government
against the black majority in South Africa from 1948 until 1991.
He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1984 for his role in the struggle to abolish the apartheid system.
He retired from public life in 2010. Indeed, the big baobab tree has fallen.
